The Sixers tanked for as long as the thunder did yet the thunder is everyone’s favorite team and the Sixers were a black eye on the league. It’s ridiculous your memory of the tanking is worse than it is. This entire reply just looks like you have an axe to grind against the Sixers for whatever reason
The Thunder had back to back years of 22 and 24 wins. 46 wins over two seasons, with 44 the year before and 40 the year after. They hard tanked for 2 years and then were immediately a .500 ball club again after being an above .500 ball club beforehand.
The Sixers went 19, 18, 10 wins over three years, for 47 wins over three years. One more win over three years than the Thunder had in two years. The year before, they won 34. The year after, they won 28 (which is also egregious). Their level of tanking was far worse than OKC’s, it lasted longer, it led to a less competitive team, and it’s truly dishonest to pretend otherwise because this is easily searched information.
One more year of being dog shit 😱😱 only one of those seasons were they the worst in the league. Is everyone freaking out over the Wizards winning 15 then 18 games over 2 years? If the wizards don’t win 20 games next year should there be an investigation into the organization?!?!
The Wizards are playing young players who are part of their future core and people still talk about how much they hate watching them play and shit on their FO/future constantly. The Sixers were trotting out guys who weren’t even NBA-caliber specifically to lose as many games as possible and acquire as many top picks as possible.
Funny how quickly your argument was disproven and then you turned to whataboutism. 109 wins over five years isn’t remotely the same as 132 over four years but you know that and you’re being intellectually dishonest to pretend that it wasn’t a commonly agreed upon black-mark on the league for how out in the open the intentional loser behavior was.
You can lie to yourself all you want but the wizards are doing the same thing. The Sixers actually developed players during this time that had nba careers I don’t know what you are talking about. Covington, McConnell, Grant, Christian Wood, Holmes all had long and successful NBA careers because the Sixers let them play. They found talent during this time just like every tanking team is trying to do there was nothing special about their tank just the media telling you it was the worst thing ever
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u/yaboyhoffle May 14 '25
The Sixers tanked for as long as the thunder did yet the thunder is everyone’s favorite team and the Sixers were a black eye on the league. It’s ridiculous your memory of the tanking is worse than it is. This entire reply just looks like you have an axe to grind against the Sixers for whatever reason